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At OCLC, we believe you'll do the best work of your life when you're living the best life possible.

We work hard to build the technology that connects thousands of today's libraries. But we also work hard to make a job at OCLC a meaningful part of a balanced life- not a substitute for one.

Technology with a Purpose. OCLC supports thousands of libraries in making information more accessible and more useful to people around the world. OCLC provides shared technology services, original research and community programs that help libraries meet the ever-evolving needs of their users, institutions, and communities. With office locations around the globe, OCLC employees are dedicated to offering premier services and software to help libraries.

The Job Details are as follows:

In this role, we look first and foremost for people who are passionate solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. You will be part of the Data Platform Engineering team responsible for administration, infrastructure planning, and scaling of Data Platforms both on-premise and AWS Cloud for OCLC. This position will work closely with the development teams to tune and troubleshoot applications to maintain high performing environments. Additionally, you will provide guidance for best practices and standards for the data platforms to your development partners.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and tune numerous AWS cloud databases technologies, Kafka and Snowflakes environments.

• Develop and enforce operational best practices to maintain availability and responsiveness of database environments

• Work in embedded development teams to understand usage patterns and tune applications to provide reliable and optimal performance

• Review existing architecture and identify opportunities for improvement in the areas of scalability, maintainability, and performance

• Automate repeatable tasks to reduce hands on administrative work

• Participate in on-call support rotation

Qualifications

Required:

• Working technical experience (minimum 8 years) with designing, building, installing, configuring, and supporting Data Platforms.

• Experience with AWS technologies and related solutions (EC2, S3, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Lambda, Athena, Snowflake)

• Familiarity with Big Data solutions (Hadoop, EMR, Spark, HDFS, HBase)

• Experience with installation and support of streaming solutions (Kafka Broker, Kafka Connect, AWS MSK)

• Solid understanding of open-source Linux operating systems (CentOS, SuSE, Red Hat)

• Strong knowledge of scripting and automation tools (e.g. GitLab, Ansible, Bash, Python, Scala)

• Expertise in typical database administration duties such as capacity management, performance tuning, and database hardening (security)

Desired Skills/ Experience:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes/Docker, Terraform

• Experience supporting a production multi-site enterprise environment

• Experience working within a Scrum/Agile framework

• Familiarity with FedRAMP Compliance